The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-06

Faith.
BROOKLYN, June 5.-The Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, d. D., preached in the Tabernacle
this morning sermon entitled; The Tenn
pest" Service began with the exposition of
appropriate passages of Scripture, after
which the great congregation sang the
hymn:
Heaven is my fatherland,
Heaven is my home. >"
The text was Mark iv, $3.50, describing
Christ stilling the tempest. He said:
Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret--three names
for the same lake. No other gem ever had
so beautiful setting. 1t lay in scene of
great luxuriance; the surrounding hills high,
terraced, sloped, groved, so many hanging
gardens of beauty the waters rumbling
down between rocks Of gray and red lime
stone, flashing from the hills and bounding
into the sea. On the shore were castles,
armed towers, Roman baths, everything at
tractive and beautiful; all styles of vegeta-
tion in shorter space than in almost any
other space in all the world, from the palm
tree of the forest to the trees of rigorous
climate.
1t seemed as if the Lord had launched one
wave of beauty on all the scene. and it hung
and swung from rock and hill and oleander.
Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing
the lake, and countymen in fsh-snacks
coming down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laughter, or
swinging idly at their moorings O, what
wonderful what beautiful lake. 1t seems
as If we shall have quiet night Not
leaf winked in the air; not a ripple dis
turbed the face of Gennesaret; but there
seems to be little excitement up the beach,
and we hasten to see what it is, and we find
it an embarkation
From the western shore fiotilla pushing
ont; not a squadron, or deadly armament,
nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
plratic vessels ready to destroy everything
they could seize; but fiotilla, bearing mes
sengers of life, and light, and peace Christ
is in the front of the boat. His disciples are
in a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much
speaking to large multitudes, is put into
somnolence by the rocking of the waves. II
there was any motion at all the ship was
easily righted; if the wind passed from star
board to larboard, or from larboard to star
board, the boat would rock, and by the
gentleness of the motion putting the Master
asleep. And they extemporized a pillow
made out of flsherman's eoat think no
sooner is Christ proStrate, and His head
touched the pillow, than be is sound asleep.
The breezes Of the lake run their fingers
through the locks of the worn sleeper, and
the boat rises and falls like a sleeping child
on the bosom of a sleeping mother.
Calm night, starry night beautiful night
Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let
the large boat and the small boat glide over
gentle Gennesaret. But the sailors say
there is going to be change of weather.
And even the passengers can hear the
moaning of the storm, as it comes on with
great stride, and all the terrors of hurricane
and darkness. The large boat trembles
like deer at bay among the clangor of the
hounds; great patches of foam are flung
into the air; the sails of the vessel loosen,
and the sharp winds crack like pistols; the
smaller boats like petrels poise ON the cliff
of the waves and then plunge.
Overheard go cargo, tackling and
masts, and the drenched dis
ciples rush into the back part
of the boat, and lay hold of Christ, and say
unto Him: Master, carest Thou not that
We perish" That great parsonage lifts His
head from the pillow of the fisherman's
coat, walks to the front of the vessel and
looks out into the storm. All around Him
are the smaller boats, driven in the tempest,
and through it comes the cry of drowning
men. By the flash of the lightning / see the
calm brow Of Christ as the spray dropped
from His beard. He has one word for the
sky and another for the waves. Looking
upward He cries: "Peace" Looking DOWN
ward He says: "Be still" "
The waves fall fiat on their faces, the
foam melts, the extinguished stars relight
their torches. The tempest falls dead and
Christ stands with His feet on the neck of
the storm. And while the sailors are bailing
out the boats, and while they are trying 60
untangle the cordage, the disciples stand in
amazement, now looking into the calm sea,
then into the calm sky, then into the calm
Saviours countenance, and they cry out:
What manner of man is this, that even
the winds and the sea obey HimF
The subject in the first place impresses
me with the fact that it is very important
to have Christ with the Ship FOR all those
boats would have gones to the.bottom of
Gennesaret if Christ had not been present
Oh, what a lesson for you and for mo to
Learnt We must always have Christ in the
ship. Whatever voyage we undertake, into
whatever enterprise we start, let us always
have Christ in the ship. Many of you, in
these days of revived commerce, are start
ing out in new financial enterprises. bid
you good cheer. DO all You can do Do il
on as high plane as possible. You have no
right 10 be a stoller in the ship if you can
be an admiral Of the navy. You have no
right to be a colonel of regiment
If you can command brigade:
you have no right to be engineer
OF n boat on river banks, or near the coast,
If you can take the ocean steamer from
New York TO Liverpool All you can do
with utmost tension of body, mind and soul
you are bound TO do; but oh have Christ in
every enterprise, Christ in every voyage,
Christ in every ship.
There are men here who ask God to help
them at the start Of great enterprises. He
hes been with 5hem III the past; no trouble
can overthrow them; the storms might
come down from the top Of Mount Hermon,
and lash Gennesarct into foam and into
agony, but it could not hurt them.
But here is another man who starts out in
worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the
uncertainties of this life. He has no God to
help him. After awhile the storm comes,
and toises off the masts of the ship; be puts
out his lifeboat, and the longboat; the sher-
if and the auctioneer try to help him off /;
they can't help him off: he must go down !;
no Christ in the ship. Here are young men
just starting out in life. Your life win be
made up of sunshine and shadow. There
may be in it Arctic blasts. or tropical lorna
does; ] know not what is before you, but /.
know II you have Christ with you all shall
be well.
You may seem TO get along without the
religion of Christ while everything goes
smoothly, but after "A while, when sorrow
movers over the soul, when the waves Of
trial dash clear over the hurricane dock.
and the decks are crowded with piratical
disasters-oh, what would you do then
without Christ in the ships Young man,
take God for your portion. God for your
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